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Alistair Mccluskey ; Peter Dennis | London : Osprey Publishing | Campaign (Osprey Publishing) | 2017"From 26 September until 8 October 1918, the Allied armies in France launched their largest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. The British, French, American and Belgian armies launched four attacks in rapid succession a[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-4728-2030-3 Article on page: 96 p. Descriptors: Class number: 940.43 Tags: Great Britain. Army--Division, 46th--History--20th century ; World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front Languages: English Books
Highly-trained and immensely skilled, the SAS are widely regarded as one of the best Special Forces units in the world. Their missions are uniquely diverse, ranging from counter-terrorist responses at home and abroad; counter-insurgency in colla[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-4728-1403-6 Article on page: 64 p. Class number: 356.16 (Special forces (Military science)) Tags: Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service ; Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service--History ; Special forces (Military science)--History Languages: English Books
This highly illustrated title deals with the great blitzkrieg campaign of May/June 1940 as German forces poured through Holland and Belgium to confront the French and British. The campaign was audacious, relying on speed and feinting and maneuve[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-4728-0274-3 Article on page: 96 p. Tags: Germany. Heeresgruppe A ; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front ; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Germany Languages: French Books
About this book In early May 1940, the fortress of Eben Emael was a potent sentinel over the Belgian–Dutch borderlands. The fortress covered 75 hectares on the surface, had 5km of tunnels underground and was studded with bunkers, gun turrets and[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-78096-261-0 Article on page: 79 p. Descriptors: Class number: 940.54219346 Tags: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Belgium--Eben-Emael ; World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Germany Languages: English Books
Simon Dunstan ; Ian Palmer, Illustrator ; Peter Dennis, Illustrator ; Mariusz Kozik, Illustrator | London : Osprey Publishing | 2009The Israeli Special Forces’ operation at Entebbe has gone down in history as one of the most audacious counter-terrorist assaults ever conducted. When a passenger jet was hijacked and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, the Israeli government immediate[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84603-397-1 Article on page: 64 p. Class number: 967.61042 Tags: Entebbe Airport Raid, 1976 (E) Languages: English Books
Gordon L Rottman (who became expert in these tactics whilst serving in the Vietnam War) explains and illustrates the kit and techniques used in assaulting fortifications. He covers the differences in British, American, German, Soviet and Japanes[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84603-191-5 Article on page: 64 Class number: 356.114 090 44 Tags: Fortification--History--20th century Languages: English Books
The Great War remains highly contested ground both historically and within popular culture generally, and this remains especially true of the events of 1917. Developments in warfare by that year helped lay the foundations of both victory and de[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-9803796-7-9 Article on page: VIII, 202 p. Descriptors: Class number: 940.485 Tags: Great Britain. Army--Australian and New Zealand Army Corps--History--Congresses ; United States. Army--American Expeditionary Force--History--Congresses ; World War, 1914-1918--Congresses Languages: English Books
Bonaparte's Grande Armée, one of the most renowned battle-winning machines in history, evolved from a merging of the professional army of the Ancien Régime and the volunteers and conscripts of the Revolutionary levée en masse – although the cont[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84603-278-3 Article on page: 64 Tags: Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns ; France. Army--Infantry--History Languages: English Books
Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become synonymous with the science of[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84176-875-5 Article on page: 64 p. Tags: Fortification--France (E) ; Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre, 1633-1707 Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84176-883-0 Article on page: 64 p. Tags: United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865 Languages: English Books
World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology – tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering. But at the heart of the battlefield was the struggle between infantrymen, and the technology was there to enable them to capture ground [...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84176-663-8 Article on page: 64 Class number: 356.114 090 44 Tags: Great Britain. Army. Infantry--History--20th century ; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns ; Infantry drill and tactics--History--20th century Languages: English Books
This volume details the different styles of fortification used on the Western Front throughout the course of the war, from the early ditches of 1914 to the complicated systems of 1918. Il explains the development of the "defence in depth" German[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84176-760-4 Article on page: 64 p. Tags: World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front ; Fortification--World War, 1914-1918 Languages: English